Face To Face: How Airtime Will Re-Humanize The Internet — One minute into using Airtime I was laughing with someone I'd never met. That's something special when despite all the asynchronous connection, the Internet threatens to make us feel lonely. On Airtime, you experience together thanks …

Google + Quickoffice = get more done anytime, anywhere — We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. — Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device.

Sprint's Virgin Mobile to Offer iPhone — Sprint Nextel Corp. is set to become the second U.S. mobile-phone carrier to offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone on a pay-as-you-go basis. — Sprint will announce this week it will offer the popular smartphone on its Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go brand as soon as July 1 …

100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace — More than 100,000 apps have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace and new content is currently being added at the rate of 313 apps per day. At the time of writing, 100,145 apps have been published.

Carriers' Next Move: One Choice for Voice — The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less—making phone calls. — In a sea change for consumer behavior, the amount of time spent making old-fashioned voice calls …

Facebook Just Opened Up Its Mobile-Only Ad Market — Facebook has added its mobile-only “Sponsored Stories” ads to the list of ad products buyers can purchase via the ads API and Power Editor, without going through its sales force, the company announced. — The move makes buying ads …

Facebook comments, ads don't sway most users: poll — (Reuters) - Four out of five Facebook Inc users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, the latest sign that much more needs to be done to turn …

Ning Co-Founder Bianchini Has New Design on Online Groups — Gina Bianchini, who cofounded Ning, is changing the direction and design of her latest startup, Mightybell. — Serial entrepreneur Gina Bianchini is betting that people want to congregate and collaborate around common interests on a site other than Facebook.

Nasdaq Takes Steps to Compensate Facebook Investors — Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. officials are telling brokers they plan to submit Wednesday the first step in the exchange group's bid to compensate investors for the technical glitches that undermined Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Some Perspective — I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening.

Nuance's Dragon ID lets you unlock your phone by voice — In the last few months, Nuance Communications has launched Dragon TV, Dragon Drive and even an Android version of Dragon Go, its Siri-like Semantic search app. Now we have a new Dragon to contend with: Dragon ID …